The Prohibition era in America, which lasted for well over a decade and—inconceivable as it might be today—effectively banned the sale and production of booze in the United States, ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933.

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PJL: April 2014 (Part 1)

Kadir van Lohuizen: Rising Seas | Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land (New York Times) Some areas of the globe are especially vulnerable to rising sea levels. As land recedes under advancing waters, governments are faced with the costs of building defensive seawalls and relocating coastal populations — and in some extreme cases, finding new homes for entire island nations.

Lynsey Addario: The New Face of Afghanistan (LightBox) Addario traveled to Afghanistan ahead of upcoming presidential elections, where the first female governor in the country, Habiba Sarabi, is now the first woman running for vice-president

Edwin Koo: Paradise in a Pakistani Valley (New York Times Lens blog) A photographer’s at first puzzling encounter with people displaced from their beloved Swat Valley led him to consider what makes a place paradise.

Susana Raab: The Other Washington (Politico magazine) Exploration of the other side of Washington, D.C.—the poverty-stricken, blighted communities in the far northeast and east of Anacostia River that seem to go unnoticed, eclipsed by the classical monuments, political imbroglio and international intrigue, literally, next door.

Alejandro Cegarra: Venezuela’s ‘vertical slum’ (CNN Photos) Located in Venezuela’s capital is the Tower of David, a half-finished skyscraper that has become a slum for thousands of people. Photographer Alejandro Cegarra, who lives near the building, visited last year and documented the lives of those who call the tower home.

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Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus killed (British Journal of Photography) Veteran photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire on her vehicle in eastern Afghanistan, a day before the presidential elections she was covering.

Humanity Among the Ruins (No Caption Needed) Robert Hariman on what happens when suffering is prolonged, destruction becomes routine, war is normalized, and searing images turn into genres of catastrophe?

Gilless Peress’ work from Rwanda in 1994 (CNN Photos) Twenty years ago this month, mass killings began in the tiny African country of Rwanda. Shortly after the genocide began, photographer Gilles Peress traveled to Rwanda, a country he had visited only weeks before. The grim aftermath can be seen in his book “The Silence.”

Finding Chris Hondros (New York Times Lens blog) Chris’s Hondros’s “Testament” book captures the mind and eye of a photographer who was killed in war. But to those who knew him, it is a chance to continue conversations started long ago.

Testament by Chris Hondros (Al Jazeera America) A new book features the late photographer’s images and first-person testimony as a witness to conflict around the world | Also on Rolling Stone here and NBC News here

Alexander Gronsky’s ‘Pastoral’ (The New Yorker’s Photo Booth) For “Pastoral,” Gronsky took to the fringes of Moscow, the suburbs between Russia’s most populous city and the countryside that surrounds it. The project is coming out as a book

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A look at the great photographers’ developer trays (BBC) When John Cyr set out to photograph the tools of the darkroom he discovered in himself something unexpected – a passion to capture the chemical fingerprints of some of the world’s greatest photographers.

In Photography, Cool Rules (New York Times Lens blog) What good is being cool if nobody knows it? An exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery shows how cool and photography need each other | American Cool is open at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington and will remain on view through Sept. 7. More here

The Art of Photojournalism (Financial Times) Over the past 10 years, photojournalists have increasingly captured the attention of the art world as their powerfully affecting images cross over from news agencies to gallery and museum walls.

Tomas van Houtryve Drone Essay Longest Ever Published by Harper’s (Photo District News) Van Houtryve takes on the proliferation of drones as weapons and as tools of surveillance in the April issue of Harper’s Magazine, in a photo essay titled “Blue Sky Days.” At 16 pages, it’s the largest picture story ever published in the magazine.

The Best of Photojournalism 2014 (New York Times Lens blog) The National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contest winners were announced Monday. John Tlumacki and Sean Proctor won top honors, and Patrick Smith was named Sports Photographer of the year.

VII Announces New Mentor Program Photographers (VII Photo) A roster of five photographers is joining agency’s Mentor Program, an education initiative launched in 2008 to provide professional development for emerging photographers whom VII consider to be amongst the brightest new talents in the industry.

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Lynsey Addario (CNN) Hala Gorani speaks to photographer Lynsey Addario about her work documenting the Syrian refugee crisis for the UNHCR.